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Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
The Boriswave is here to stay
Labour’s internal row over settlement was always theatre; the destination was permanent residency all along
Lessons from the Argentinians
There is little value in complaining about foul play if you cannot win
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken